Support for Debt & Deficit Reform is beginning to coalesce around three different plans.

If you didn’t like ‘Bowles-Simpson’ then you certainly won’t like the other two which are much more aggressive: ‘Rivlin-Domenici’ and ‘Ralson/MacGuineas’.

All involve some level of pain.

Good news: the pain is shared: Don’t like social programs? Hack and slash time! Don’t like defense programs? Hack and slash time!

Good news for Republicans & allies: None of these three emerging plans involve Republicans per se. So you can just sit back and view the debate and determine which groups will scream the loudest once you get your chance to hack and slash in January 2011.

Bad news for Republicans & allies: These folks have already identified the billpayers for you. There is mostly only beef from slaughtered sacred cows — the pigs are busy laughing because no one could really find the hidden pork. Although to some people one person’s sacred cow often seem to look a lot like pork when it comes to dinner time.